Maria Eugenia Payan is a journalist based in Miami, Florida. She is a journalist for Noticias Univision.^[1][2][3][4]

She began working as a television production assistant in 1996 for investigative shows.

She made her debut in front of the cameras in 2001 as a sports reporter and soon after she became a sports news anchor.

Payan has worked for the Univision network since 2003, where she began as a presenter for the program Contacto Deportivo. Since 2008 she has worked on the news team. ^[5][6]

Payan was born in the Dominican Republic.